Sunday, February 14, 2010

Russell Williams: The Broken Wing Commander

UPDATE: March 13, 2014...there is a story on the CBC website about a Psychiatrist who interviewed Williams. The psychiatrist says something happened to him ("out of the public domain") that led to the murders. I have always wondered if something happened to him either when he was a child (sexual abuse) or (more likely) when he was at "Camp Mirage". If it happened to him when he was in the army...isn't the military responsible for the effects?

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By now, most people have heard about Russell Williams, aka Russ Sovka, the commander of Trenton, Ontario, the largest military base in Canada who was arrested a week ago today for murder of two women and rape of two more.

This is a bizarre case, to say the least. But one of the most disturbing aspects of it was the almost total blackout of news about Russell Williams early life, his upbringing and his family. It's incredible to think such a prominent soldier in the Canadian Military would have an official biography (on the Canadian Armed Forces Website) that did not have any information on him prior to 1987 when he joined the forces. All the military spokespersons could say about him after his arrest was that he was a "rising star" and that they were totally blindsided by him being charged with such serious crimes.

The news immediately brought to my mind Kay Greig and her story a decade or so ago about corruption in the high levels of the US Military. Kay said she learned from her then husband (a general in the US Military) how drunkenness, rape, all kinds of sexual perversion, violence and assassinations were "the norm" at the highest echelons of military power. Kay was not afraid to name names and I recommend you read her story and watch her video interviews to make up your own mind about her truthfulness. Ironically, Kay uses the same expression "rising star(s)" to describe those involved in the corruption.

In the days that have followed Russell Williams' arrest, reporters have managed to flesh out some details about his past...and disturbing details they are. None more so than the fact that for a time in the past few years, he headed up a mysterious Canadian forward army base in Bahrain. Why would Canada need an army base in the Middle East? It would make our forefathers spin in their graves to know Canada has sunk so far down the fatal path to Imperialism.

What goes on at "Camp Mirage" as it is called? Is it a school to train or brainwash soldiers to do unspeakable things? Don't think we'll find out the answer to that one soon.

In the meantime, Russell Williams sits solitary in his jail cell....likely asking himself questions about how he got there. Perhaps he's wondering if, as Bee Gee Barry Gibb asks in his song "Alone":

View from the Crow's Nest

What happened to Kennedy is nearly what happened to me. America is in danger of upheavals. But you'll see. All of them together will observe the law of silence. They will close ranks. They'll do everything to stifle the scandal. They will throw Noah's cloak over these shameful deeds. In order to not lose face in front of the whole world. In order to not risk unleashing riots in the United States. In order to preserve the union and to avoid a new civil war. In order to not ask themselves questions. They don't want to know. They don't want to find out. They won't allow themselves to find out."

~ French president after returning to Paris from JFK's funeral on November 24th, 1963

- Charles de Gaulle

“If NWO agents cannot use reason to make a point, then they are right: I am their enemy.” Vladimir Putin

"For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed." JFK

Our rights will not fall due to limitations nor will they be abolished by unjust rule. Ali Badwan re Palestine

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'.....the truth is that Western corporate so-called news media are simply this: one giant troll army marching in lockstep with the political agenda of Washington and its coterie of Western allies.' Finian Cunningham...

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” – George Orwell

"Those who stand up for justice will always be on the right side of history." Copied from a protest sign seen at a demonstration in Palestine.

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"Authentic journalism is journalism that tells the people something the government doesn't want them to know." --Gary Webb (1955 – 2004)

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Anyone who relies on the Western media lives inside The Matrix. - Paul Craig Roberts

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Greencrow is an Internet identity and avatar I chose in 2003... when I first started going on news forums. I first used it on The New York Times forums (was kicked off that forum for insisting 9/11 was an inside job--since reinstated) but have used it on many other forums such as YouTube, CBC, Rabble.ca (kicked off that one) Rigorous Intuition (kicked off that one too) and a few more I can't think of at the moment.

In any case, Blogs are supposed to be fun and I hope this one is for me and my readers. gc

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